Asset type
- Content Policy: Artist Names, real known people, fictional characters
- Vector requirements
- Single icons and icon sheets
- Video requirements
- Generative AI requirements
- PNG files with transparency requirements
- Illustrative editorial requirements
- Motion graphics templates requirements
- Design template requirements
- Premium and 3D collections
- Diverse and Inclusive content guidelines
- Photo and illustration requirements
- Stock Contributor User guide
- Why contribute to Adobe Stock
- Create and manage your account
- Legal guidelines
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Content requirements
- Content Policy: Artist Names, real known people, fictional characters
- Vector requirements
- Single icons and icon sheets
- Video requirements
- Generative AI requirements
- PNG files with transparency requirements
- Illustrative editorial requirements
- Motion graphics templates requirements
- Design template requirements
- Premium and 3D collections
- Diverse and Inclusive content guidelines
- Photo and illustration requirements
- Prepare and upload your content
- Describe your content effectively
- Review process
Get details here on royalty rates, payment for Free Collection Works and Supplemental Works, and our bonus program for active Adobe Stock Contributors.
Details on how to request payment on Adobe Stock can be found here: helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/getting-paid.html.
These Pricing and Payment Details are incorporated by reference into the Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement.
The below royalty rates apply to assets licensed under Adobe Stock standard plans, such as subscriptions, credit packs, and on-demand licenses.
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Royalty Rate* |
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Photos Vectors Illustrations |
33% |
Video |
35% |
*The royalty rate is applied to the net price per licensed asset, based on the U.S. purchase price and including any discounts. For example, if the plan costs US$29.99 per month for 10 monthly photo licenses, then the royalty amount (rounded up to the nearest cent) would be US$0.99 per licensed photo (US$29.99 / 10 photos x 33%). Note: actual royalty calculations may not be rounded to the nearest cent.
Adobe Stock also licenses assets through custom agreements and non-standard plans, such as Adobe Express plans and Pro Edition plans for Creative Cloud for teams and enterprise. Royalty rates for assets licensed under these agreements and plans are either: (A) for non-video assets, 33% of the attributable amount, and for video content, 35% of the attributable amount; or (B) a flat rate. For clarity, you will not be paid a royalty for licenses of assets in the free collection.
Minimum royalty amounts
The following minimum royalty amounts apply to standard assets licensed under the Adobe Stock Large Subscription (350 standard assets per month or larger). Standard assets include standard photos, vectors, and illustrations.
Lifetime Licenses* |
Minimum Royalty Amount (per licensed standard asset) |
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0-999 |
$0.33 |
1,000-9,999 |
$0.36 |
10,000 and above |
$0.38 |
Bonus Program
For our active Contributors, based on the number of downloads your photos, illustrations, vectors, templates and videos receive during the 2024 calendar year, you can earn complimentary access to one of the following plans for one year: Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps, Creative Cloud Photography (20GB), Illustrator Single App, InDesign Single App, Premiere Pro Single App, or After Effects Single App.1
Here are the details:
- If you had between 350 and 6,999 downloads during the 2024 calendar year, you qualified to receive a complimentary code for a one-year plan for Creative Cloud Photography (20GB), Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, or After Effects.
- If you had 7,000 or more downloads in 2024, you qualified to receive a complimentary code for a one-year plan for an Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps.
- Only Contributors active in 2024 are eligible for the opportunity. To be considered active, you must have uploaded and had approved a minimum of 150 new assets.
- Please note that video downloads are equal to 3 downloads in consideration of the qualification.
- If you are eligible for the bonus opportunity you can expect to see the blue banner in the Contributor Portal with your redemption code on January 14, 2025.
1 No signup necessary. An active contributor is an Adobe Stock contributor with at least 150 assets submitted and approved qualifying assets in 2024. Contributors located in countries where the apps are not available are excluded from the Bonus Program.
2 Adobe employees are excluded from the bonus program.
Free Collection Payment
This section applies only to Works that you have nominated, and Adobe has accepted, for inclusion in the Free Collection, as described in the Free Collection Addendum below.
Capitalized but undefined terms below are defined in the Free Collection Addendum.
For each Work Adobe places in the Free Collection, Adobe will pay you per the below table.
Credits will be deposited to your applicable Adobe Stock contributor account within 30 days after the start of each Free Period, with credits converting according to the currency associated with that account, as described at helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/getting-paid.html.
Asset type |
For Each Work Placed in the Free Collection in 2024 |
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Photos Vectors Illustrations |
Single payment of 5 credits |
Videos |
Single payment of 8 credits |
Icons |
Single payment of 1 credit |
Supplemental Work Payment
This section applies to Supplemental Work. Adobe will pay you the amount offered in your contributor account for Supplemental Work.
Credits will be deposited to your applicable Adobe Stock contributor account no later than 30 days from use by Adobe, with credits converting according to 1 USD, as described at helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/getting-paid.html.
Supplemental Work Addendum
This addendum (“Addendum”) to the Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement (“Contributor Agreement”), applies to “Supplemental Work”, which is Work submitted by you to fulfill a content and/or services request from Adobe, and which Adobe accepts.
You agree that:
1. Adobe may notify you of a content and/or services request in your contributor account, email or other method with guidelines for submission (“Supplemental Work Request”).
2. You may submit Work to be considered by Adobe for the Supplemental Work Request during the “Submission Period”, which is any time period in which Adobe enables you to submit Work.
3. Adobe may accept your Work as a Supplemental Work at any time following the Submission Period. Adobe is not obligated to accept submitted Work as Supplemental Work.
4. Adobe will pay the amount offered in the Supplemental Work Request as full and final compensation for use of the Supplemental Work.
5. Supplemental Work may not be withdrawn by you, unless technically or legally required to do so (in which case you will notify Adobe of the need for removal by sending an email to contributor-support@adobe.com).
6. Supplemental Work Requests are confidential, and their details may not be shared by you with third parties.
7. In the event of a concern or dispute, you agree to resolve such concern or dispute pursuant to the dispute resolution process terms and/or any other applicable terms set forth in the Adobe Terms of Use.
8. If there is a conflict between this Addendum and the Contributor Agreement, this Addendum governs solely as to Work submitted for consideration as Supplemental Work.
Effective as of October 22, 2024